It has been defined that "[s]urrealism is a style in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible." In addition, it has been argued that surrealism occurs "in the absence of conscious moral or
aesthetics of self-censorship." Examples of surrealism art:
Thoughts:
It seems that surrealism circles around the idea of manipulation and exaggeration of human body parts and other objects. In addition, it seems to involve lots of layering and combination of many objects. Their form of art gives off a strong sense of complication, dark and disturbing feel...
Pictures adopted (in order) from:
Cinestatic
Surrealist beachcombers
Postersdot
DARK COMEDY
Visual representations of dark comedy:
Thoughts:
It seems that dark comedy and surrealism has some commonalities. They both evoke a strong sense of disturbance.
Pictures adopted (in order) from:
Griffin Theatre
North Field Guild
References:
Surrealism.org
Wikipedia
RSS Feed (xml)
No comments:
Post a Comment